Katie Hendricks & Lamara Heartwell from Liberating Your Body Intelligence

Katie Hendricks & Lamara Heartwell from Liberating Your Body Intelligence

“BQ (Body Intelligence) & the Global Body”

With Katie Hendricks: Co-founder of the Hendricks Institute and Seminar Leader
Gay Hendricks: Founder of The Hendricks Institute
Lamara Heartwell: Body Intelligence Expert & Founder of Santa Barbara Dance Tribe
Mark Metz: Founder and Executive Director of the DanceFirst Association, Publisher of Conscious Dancer Magazin

An exploration of BQ (Body Intelligence) practices for creative collaboration, conflict resolution, and solution focus in communities and society.

Kathlyn Hendricks is the CEO and Director of Training for The Hendricks Institute, an international learning organization that teaches the core skills of conscious living through a unique, whole-body approach to Quantum Coaching™. Her explorations of the catalytic power of the creative arts in psychotherapy and organizational systems have been featured in many magazines, journals and books. She received her doctorate in psychology in 1982, and has been an board-certified member of the American Dance Therapy Association since 1975. She has consulted and taught in the graduate programs of many universities and has an international reputation as a seminar leader for health and business professionals. She is the co-author of ten books, including Conscious Loving, The Conscious Heart, At the Speed of Life and Lasting Love.

Gay Hendricks has served for more than 30 years as one of the major contributors to the fields of relationship transformation and body-mind therapies. Along with his wife, Dr. Kathlyn Hendricks, Gay is the author of many bestsellers, including Conscious Loving, At The Speed Of Life, Conscious Breathing, The Big Leap and Five Wishes. Dr. Hendricks received his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Stanford in 1974. After a 21-year career as a professor at University Colorado, he founded The Hendricks Institute, which offers seminars in North America, Asia and Europe. He is also the founder of www.supermindapps.com, which produces personal development apps for iPhone and Android.

Lamara Heartwell is a BQ (Body Intelligence) expert who speaks, facilitates and performs, inspiring people to claim their bodies as an essential source of intelligence, power and pleasure. Lamara founded Santa Barbara Dance Tribe in 2009, a thriving twice-weekly ecstatic dance event with a strong community presence since its inception. She has produced dozens of performance art events in California over the past 12 years. As the great granddaughter of one of the founders of Exxon, her passion and activism for environmental sustainability has been influenced by her family lineage in the oil industry. Lamara is as invested in the health of the planet as she is in the health of our bodies, and sees a direct relationship between the two. She holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Colorado at Boulder, a coaching certification through the Hendricks Institute, two years of counseling training at the Interchange Institute, and received extensive yoga training since age 16. Lamara lives in Santa Barbara, CA. In her free time, she delights in playing on the magical and wild shores of the pacific.

Mark Metz is the founder of the DanceFirst Association and Publisher of Conscious Dancer Magazine. Mark’s path to founding DanceFirst began in the early 90s in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, when his artisan clothing store Ameba became ground zero for the rave explosion. He began writing about the spiritual side of the movement, helping with the legendary renegade Full Moon gatherings, and opening up the in-store turntables as a learning lab for fledgling DJs. A decade later he coined the term “conscious dance” to describe DJ events or workshops at hot springs and yoga studios, and in 2007, launched Conscious Dancer Magazine with co-founder Aspen Madrone. Years of tracking the growth of the movement and serving its leaders have led him to establish the Dance First Association, a professional organization for facilitators advocating the cause of “movement before medication”.